The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-20
Local and state Notes.

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Local and State Notes.
John Sufka. of the Vncennes section was,
Saturday, awarded the first premium for having
the best section Of track the I. e v road
The Ohio Falls car-works. Jeffersonville Ind,
Saturday last were awarded the contract to
build 300 coal cars for the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie road
The G., l., ST. L. & G. is handling immense
quantities of barley we'll as corn Yesterday
there were nearly GOO carloads of grain moving
the road.
VIM. r. McKeen. president of the Vandalia.
and his general attorney. Williams were IL the
city yesterday looking after matters in con-
nection with the pending litigation.
j. B. Bartholomew was yesterday appointed
commercial agent of the Vandaiia with head
quarters at Fort Worth Tex He is to have
charge Of the traffic in Texas and ad ioining ter
ritory.
President Mackey, of the Evansville & Terre
Haute road, has purchased several new engines
of heavier pattern than has been used hereto
fore the road. The bridges on the road have
been siren gthened.
Sunday next q change in running time on the
G., J., s.. L. & c. road takes effect, and also the
new rules which have been revised to conform
TO the rules adopted at the recent convention of
railway suDerintendents.
The c.. J.. St. L. & c. has in track thirty-fve
miles Of ffty-six- pound steel rail which was
laid in 1879, and so little does it show that
Chief Engineer Morris hesitates about taking 1t
out and substituting sixty-seven-p pound rail.
John Macy, a brakeman the T. & St L.
road. was running over his train yesterday after
noon as IL neRred Danville, to set the brakes.
He stepped on block of conl, which turned
with him, and he fell beneath the train, his
{ head being instantaneously severed from the
body.
The Tarre Haute car-works are building 300
furniture for the Chicago Milwaukee g. St.
Paul road They are six feet longer than ordi-
nary box cars and nine feet high in the clear.
The O., M. & St P. will send these into In
diana, and make an effort TO secure some of the
business OF this character.
Fifty shipped from the Lafayette
carworks, hauled by one of the c. l. ST. l.. e
C. moeul engines, passed through the city yes
terday and attracted good deal of attention.
80 Uniform was the appearance that it
really handsome freight train. The cars were
consigned to one of the Southern roads.
Navigation on the lakes is closed and the last
Of the lake vessels in port It is stated that
at Cleveland and Chicago larger fleets OF yes
sells are win tering than at any time for many
years. The railroads will now have clear field
do the east-b bound business but 1t is quite evil
dent that no attempt will be made to advance
rates.
The Indiana polls, Decatur & Springfield man
agement have under consideration the building
of sx-me branch 10 cosl mines in Perke
county It is thought it would be great help
20 the road and that the profits the first
years traffic from the mines, where the best
coal in the State Is found, would more than pay
the cost.
J. IT, Miller, who has beer running an engin
twenty one years formerly on the Wabash, last
ence he never met with accident, and his
trains always reached destination on time Mr..
Miller attributes his good luck TO the fact that
he never took a drink of whisky and does not
use tobacco in any form.
The suit OF Wilson & Boyd grain dealers OF this
city. against the l., d. & 5. company, in which
they claim 5000 for damages resulting from al
legged discrln u atoms, comes up for hearing
Thursday before Judge Wood, of the U. s.
Court In this the L. D. & S. company
instructed agents to forward no freight for this
firm unless the charges were prepaid
A general freight agent remarked, yesterday,
that the reduction in freight rates that the
Wabash has inaugurated and which other roads
are following, after all, would not cut down the
earnings much, about as much per ton will
be received by the roads making the reduction
es they were getting one year ago. when rebates
of 25 per cent. or more were the rule. The re-
duction proposed is only regular and legal re-
bate.
Indianapolis division of railway conductors
elected A. ]. Morrow. C. c.; d. E. Shea. A. G.
G.; j. D. Baldwin, secretary and treasurer; J.
Prentice senior G.; J. A. Donavin, junior c.;
VIM. Ryan, l. s: Fl. Knowles. .. s; trustees,
j. U. King, for three wears. H L. Matthews for
two years and H Knowles for the one-year
term l. d. Baldwin was appointed delegate to
the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge. J. II.
Belknap, alternate.
Managers of Indiana roads are holding closely |
TO their cars, great is the demand for them to
move the business of the country. Both east |
and the big roads crowded with traffic /
and every foreign is pressed into local serv-
car tracer to get the returned. Out of Chi
caeo as well as Indianapolis the roads crowd /
ed with freights, mostly of local class. The /
trunk lines are partially blockaded and all the /
transcon tinen tai lines are blockaded. The Cen
tral Pacific has miles of loaded standing
eide-tracks awaiting power to haul it. andson |
the Southern Pacific there is more west bound I
freight standing side-tracks than they can
forward IL sixty days
Now that the Lake Erie e Western people
have located their general Offices here and put
MP very handsome and expensive building, and
propose make still further improvements.
showing that they have interest in the CITY,
the merchants of Indianapolis are turning all
the business TO them that they well can, and the
road promises to again become popular az IL
was under the Macy Malott management Few
roa is are in better shape. financially, than the
Lake Erie e Western. 1t has bonded debt of
only $40, 900 per mile. bearing per cent. per an
mum interest. The company has outstand-
ing car-trust obligations debts of Ike char
acter and when it's line is completed to Peoria
" hich will be in about ninety days, the road
will be among the most important crossing the
State.
miscellaneous Notes.
The Boston & Albany is fitting up one of its
engines 10 test the burning of petroleum as
fuel for making steam.
The Chicago Milwaukee e. St Paul system
now eomprisas < CAT miles of main track. The